Azure Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Azure
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 14 6
Rank change year-on-year +8 -8 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 636 356 795
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 9.88% 11.98% 13.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.52% 42.13% 46.57%
Number of salaries quoted 259 282 715
10th Percentile £24,000 £26,250 £28,773
25th Percentile £29,750 £32,533 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -1.96%
75th Percentile £75,000 £58,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £73,625 £73,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £59,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +5.93% -9.23%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,695 845 1,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 26.33% 28.44% 28.10%
Number of salaries quoted 726 624 1,457
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £73,938 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,367 £75,300
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +8.70% -11.54%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Azure job vacancy trend in the East of England

Azure
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the East of England over the 6 months to 6 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the East of England region over the 6 months to 6 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Essex -3 155 £55,000 +28.65% 37
Cambridgeshire +4 137 £55,000 +10.00% 32
Hertfordshire -17 114 £60,000 +9.09% 59
Suffolk +30 96 £48,370 -3.26% 18
Norfolk +1 89 £60,000 +84.43% 21
Bedfordshire +8 43 £14,000 -73.58% 21
Azure
England

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 55 (8.65%) SharePoint
2 30 (4.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.42%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.94%) WordPress
6 5 (0.79%) CMS
7 1 (0.16%) Apache
7 1 (0.16%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.16%) Luigi
7 1 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 85 (13.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.63%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (1.42%) Dynamics AX
1 9 (1.42%) Dynamics GP
2 7 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.79%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.31%) Infor M3
4 2 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 143 (22.48%) Power Platform
2 119 (18.71%) Microsoft 365
3 113 (17.77%) Azure AI
4 83 (13.05%) AWS
5 71 (11.16%) Entra ID
6 38 (5.97%) PowerApps
7 36 (5.66%) Power Automate
8 33 (5.19%) Azure Data Factory
8 33 (5.19%) Azure Logic Apps
9 30 (4.72%) Azure DevOps
10 28 (4.40%) OneDrive
11 25 (3.93%) GCP
12 19 (2.99%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 17 (2.67%) SaaS
13 17 (2.67%) Snowflake
14 16 (2.52%) GitHub
15 15 (2.36%) IaaS
16 10 (1.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 9 (1.42%) Azure AKS
17 9 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 57 (8.96%) Firewall
2 23 (3.62%) VPN
3 21 (3.30%) DNS
4 18 (2.83%) WAN
5 14 (2.20%) DHCP
6 13 (2.04%) LAN
7 12 (1.89%) TCP/IP
8 9 (1.42%) Internet
9 8 (1.26%) Wireless
10 7 (1.10%) Broadband
11 6 (0.94%) Network Security
12 5 (0.79%) DMZ
12 5 (0.79%) SAN
13 4 (0.63%) VLAN
13 4 (0.63%) WLAN
14 3 (0.47%) SSL
14 3 (0.47%) VoIP
15 2 (0.31%) SD-WAN
15 2 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
16 1 (0.16%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (20.91%) Power BI
2 92 (14.47%) Tableau
3 40 (6.29%) Azure SQL Database
4 25 (3.93%) SQL Server
5 14 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (2.04%) Data Lake
7 9 (1.42%) MongoDB
8 8 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (1.26%) BigQuery
8 8 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.94%) Looker
9 6 (0.94%) MySQL
9 6 (0.94%) Snowflake Schema
10 4 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (0.47%) Big Data
11 3 (0.47%) Redis
11 3 (0.47%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (1.73%) Git
2 8 (1.26%) Jenkins
3 6 (0.94%) JIRA
3 6 (0.94%) MLflow
4 2 (0.31%) Selenium
5 1 (0.16%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.16%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.16%) JMeter
5 1 (0.16%) Postman
5 1 (0.16%) REST Assured
General
1 376 (59.12%) Social Skills
2 68 (10.69%) Finance
3 25 (3.93%) Law
4 24 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (1.89%) Public Sector
6 11 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (1.42%) Multimedia
8 8 (1.26%) Marketing
9 6 (0.94%) Retail
10 5 (0.79%) Legal
10 5 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (0.79%) Publishing
11 4 (0.63%) Advertising
11 4 (0.63%) Banking
11 4 (0.63%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.31%) Police
13 1 (0.16%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.16%) Music Industry
13 1 (0.16%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 181 (28.46%) Analyst
2 172 (27.04%) Junior
3 168 (26.42%) Junior Analyst
4 85 (13.36%) Security Analyst
5 84 (13.21%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 84 (13.21%) Data Analyst
5 84 (13.21%) Junior Data Analyst
5 84 (13.21%) Junior Security Analyst
6 67 (10.53%) Developer
7 64 (10.06%) IT Support
8 60 (9.43%) Ethical Hacker
9 50 (7.86%) Senior
10 37 (5.82%) Azure Engineer
10 37 (5.82%) Network Engineer
11 34 (5.35%) IT Engineer
12 33 (5.19%) Architect
13 31 (4.87%) Support Engineer
14 28 (4.40%) Lead
15 27 (4.25%) Software Developer
16 25 (3.93%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (8.02%) CSS
2 42 (6.60%) HTML
3 36 (5.66%) .NET
4 29 (4.56%) .NET Core
5 23 (3.62%) JSON
6 22 (3.46%) HTML5 Canvas
7 19 (2.99%) Microsoft Graph
7 19 (2.99%) SPFx
8 17 (2.67%) REST
9 12 (1.89%) React
10 11 (1.73%) jQuery
11 10 (1.57%) ASP.NET
11 10 (1.57%) SOAP
12 9 (1.42%) ASP.NET Core
13 8 (1.26%) PyTorch
13 8 (1.26%) scikit-learn
13 8 (1.26%) TensorFlow
14 7 (1.10%) Kafka
15 6 (0.94%) LangChain
15 6 (0.94%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 60 (9.43%) Cyberattack
2 31 (4.87%) Cloud Native
3 12 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (1.89%) Onboarding
4 11 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (1.26%) Clustering
5 8 (1.26%) Driving Licence
5 8 (1.26%) Low-Code
6 7 (1.10%) Robotics
6 7 (1.10%) Security Posture
7 6 (0.94%) Cloud Security Posture
7 6 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (0.94%) Management Information System
7 6 (0.94%) PKI
7 6 (0.94%) Public Cloud
8 5 (0.79%) Blog
8 5 (0.79%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 5 (0.79%) Data Structures
8 5 (0.79%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 80 (12.58%) Windows
2 52 (8.18%) Windows Server
3 12 (1.89%) Windows Server 2016
4 11 (1.73%) Linux
4 11 (1.73%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (1.42%) Android
6 6 (0.94%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.79%) VMS
8 4 (0.63%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.31%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (33.18%) Cybersecurity
2 156 (24.53%) AI
3 136 (21.38%) Business Intelligence
4 126 (19.81%) Mentoring
5 64 (10.06%) Agile
6 60 (9.43%) Ethical Hacking
6 60 (9.43%) Problem-Solving
7 56 (8.81%) DevOps
8 49 (7.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 45 (7.08%) CI/CD
10 38 (5.97%) Analytics
11 36 (5.66%) Computer Science
11 36 (5.66%) Machine Learning
12 34 (5.35%) Technical Leadership
13 33 (5.19%) Roadmaps
14 29 (4.56%) Data Modelling
14 29 (4.56%) Project Management
15 28 (4.40%) ERP
15 28 (4.40%) Stakeholder Management
16 27 (4.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Programming Languages
1 174 (27.36%) SQL
2 152 (23.90%) Python
3 69 (10.85%) C#
4 45 (7.08%) JavaScript
5 43 (6.76%) PowerShell
6 24 (3.77%) PHP
7 23 (3.62%) TypeScript
8 13 (2.04%) Java
9 10 (1.57%) C++
10 8 (1.26%) R
11 6 (0.94%) Bash
11 6 (0.94%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.31%) Bicep
12 2 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.16%) Scala
13 1 (0.16%) VB
Qualifications
1 304 (47.80%) Azure Certification
2 86 (13.52%) CompTIA Security+
3 85 (13.36%) CompTIA CySA+
4 60 (9.43%) CEH
5 55 (8.65%) Degree
6 40 (6.29%) Microsoft Certification
7 38 (5.97%) Cisco Certification
8 37 (5.82%) Security Cleared
9 32 (5.03%) CCNA
10 28 (4.40%) Network+ Certification
11 25 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
12 23 (3.62%) SC Cleared
13 17 (2.67%) AWS Certification
14 9 (1.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 8 (1.26%) TOGAF Certification
16 7 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 6 (0.94%) DBS Check
18 5 (0.79%) CCNP
18 5 (0.79%) DV Cleared
19 4 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (2.83%) GDPR
2 16 (2.52%) QA
3 13 (2.04%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.73%) Data Quality
5 10 (1.57%) GRC
6 9 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.26%) NIST
8 6 (0.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 6 (0.94%) SLA
9 5 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 5 (0.79%) JSP 440
9 5 (0.79%) NCSC
9 5 (0.79%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.47%) PMO
11 2 (0.31%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.16%) IFRS
12 1 (0.16%) ISO 31000
12 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 80 (12.58%) Active Directory
2 22 (3.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.36%) Hyper-V
3 15 (2.36%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.94%) Docker
5 6 (0.94%) vSphere
6 1 (0.16%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 32 (5.03%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (2.52%) Terraform
3 14 (2.20%) Kubernetes
4 7 (1.10%) Ansible
5 4 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (0.63%) SolarWinds Orion
5 4 (0.63%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.16%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.16%) Grafana
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 1 (0.16%) Nessus
6 1 (0.16%) SCCM
6 1 (0.16%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 442 (69.50%) Microsoft
2 168 (26.42%) ForeScout
3 37 (5.82%) Cisco
4 28 (4.40%) VMware
5 19 (2.99%) Adobe
6 18 (2.83%) Databricks
7 12 (1.89%) Fortinet
7 12 (1.89%) SAP
7 12 (1.89%) ServiceNow
8 11 (1.73%) Apple
9 9 (1.42%) Epicor
9 9 (1.42%) SolarWinds
9 9 (1.42%) Veeam
10 7 (1.10%) Aruba
10 7 (1.10%) Google
10 7 (1.10%) MuleSoft
10 7 (1.10%) Salesforce
11 6 (0.94%) Dell
11 6 (0.94%) Meraki
11 6 (0.94%) Pega